late november, madison
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Late November, MadisonAuthor(s): David HiltonSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Summer, 1971), p. 17Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20157740 .
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SEEN ON A COUNTRY ROAD
An abandoned all-you-can-drink cider stand
that a man and woman once ran?
traffic from the city dried up, so also the apples. No one could drink any at all.
Boys chase girls inside, and girls chase them out.
Among a broken cider jug lie rat-bones that some cat spit out.
The man and woman are at play in the hollow
of a huge tree. Both are young and wealthy now.
The huge tree rains apples upon the busy city
large, costly apples, hard and dry, that kill when they hit.
LATE NOVEMBER, MADISON
Across the lake the lights of the rich people signal a code warm money.
We stand in a room
where a dog is yawning, and a boy is reading his poems
written, he murmurs, from the bottom
of a pit of acute paranoia.
A mile of late November
to those stars across the pit of water. Farm income will fall
again this year. Massive layoffs from the second biggest
payroll in town. And
the poetry is poor, is terrible, and we applaud.
Hilton
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